#STATUS OF LOST SUBMARINE ARGENTINA UPDATE#
#STATUS OF LOST SUBMARINE ARGENTINA FULL#

#STATUS OF LOST SUBMARINE ARGENTINA UPDATE#

Officials from the US Coast Guard provided an update on the status of the search and rescue mission that continues after the Titan, a submersible carrying five tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic, went missing on Sunday.įamilies of the individuals aboard the vessel are receiving regular updates, and US officials are communicating with their counterparts from France and Britain as citizens from these countries are among those who are currently unaccounted for.Īssistance from various governments has played a crucial role in aiding the Coast Guard's search efforts, as the search area for the Titanic is extensive and deep. US Coast Guard provides update on Titan search and rescue mission

#STATUS OF LOST SUBMARINE ARGENTINA FULL#

Read more in our full coverage on how activists and academics have responded to the stark differences in aid provided to those lost on the Titan and the hundreds of migrants who perished on the Mediterranean. The death count has yet to be finalized, but the horrific incident is likely to be one of the most deadly cases in EU migratory history. Since then, three more bodies have been recovered. A UN Human Rights agency reported on 16 June that five hundred migrants, including “large numbers of women and children,” were still missing and that only 104 people had been rescued. To date, the International Organization for Migration has confirmed seventy-eight deaths but believes this figure is likely much higher. Read more on the warnings about the high risks of the voyage that were known by company executives for years before this week's tragic events.Īs many in the United States and Europe have their attention drawn to the missing submersible, dubbed the Titan, carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic, there is another tragic story that took place at sea earlier this month that the media almost entirely missed.Įarlier this month, off the coast of Greece in the Mediterranean Sea, a boat that set sail for Italy from Libya carrying between 400 and 700 migrants capsized.

Therefore, barring a miracle, it seems that the maneuvers of the authorities will serve, at most, to recover the remains. And, as already noted, there is not much air supply left in the small cabin. Among other things, because a recovery operation at these depths - even if the exact location of the vehicle was known - can last for days. It seems highly unlikely that the lives of the five on board can be saved at this point. Among them is Stockton Rush, the executive director of the submersible’s maker, OceanGate. They are still trying to assess the feasibility of a rescue mission, as the five crew members of the ship had a maximum of 96 hours of oxygen, which runs out tomorrow. This means that there are only a few hours left in which there is still a possibility, however remote, of recovering the unfortunate passengers alive. Time is running out for rescue teams working to find the Titan submersible that lost communication underwater, as it was heading towards the remains of the Titanic at a depth of 12,400 feet. Time, unfortunately, is on nobody's side. “The ROV may have to work around the wreckage… it may take a few hours to release the sub from the seafloor.” “If it were intact, an ROV could attach to it and it could at least bring it up to shallower water where they could get a stronger lift cable to it to lift it out of the water… that ascent may take an hour or two.

You could be lifting a very heavy weight,” Allum said. “If the pressure hull is flooded, you’re now talking about the dry mass of a vessel. To me, it sounds like the sub’s pressure hull is intact, but it’s demobilised from power. A catastrophic implosion could be heard for thousands of miles and could be recorded. “Sound travels particularly well underwater. Speaking to The Guardian, Allum expanded: 'It may take a a few hours to release the sub from the seafloor'ĭeep-sea engineer Ron Allum, who designed the vessel that film-maker James Cameron used to reach the Mariana Trench, the Earth's deepest point, says that it's unlikely the Titan submersible 'suffered a catastrophic failure of its pressure hull'.

Status of lost submarine argentina